Wasted Youth: Deadly Surge

Our initial report in March 2007, “Wasted Youth,” exposed the toll OxyContin and heroin addiction had taken on this region. We have revisited the records and updated our research — in the past 12 months, the number of overdoses surged, the number of dead hit a high. The sickness of opiate addiction,...

“Wasted Youth,” our initial report in March 2007, exposed the toll OxyContin and heroin addiction had taken on this region. We have revisited the records and updated our research — in the past 12 months, the number of overdoses surged, the number of dead hit a high. The sickness of opiate addiction, already beyond control, is spreading through our cities and towns. And there is no end — no cure to what’s killing our children — in sight.